Patnos ( Armenian: Բադնոց,

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: Badnoc‘ or Patnoc‘, Kurdish: Panos) was a historically important Armenian city, is now a district of

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on a plain surrounded by high mountains including Süphan, watered by tributaries of the

Murat River The Murat River, also called Eastern Euphrates ( tr, Murat Nehri, , hy, Արածանի, translit=Aratsani), is a major source of the Euphrates River. The Ancient Greeks and Romans used to call the river ''Arsanias'' ( gr, Ἀρσανίας). It ...

. 82 km south of the city of

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on the road to

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. The mayor is Emrah Kılıç ( HDP). The plain has been settled since at least 1300BC and this was a centre of the

Urartu Urartu (; Assyrian: ',Eberhard Schrader, ''The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament'' (1885), p. 65. Babylonian: ''Urashtu'', he, אֲרָרָט ''Ararat'') is a geographical region and Iron Age kingdom also known as the Kingdom of V ...

civilisation. The city has many historical ruins from Urartian period. There are a number of places of historical interest around Patnos, including the castle of Aznavur Tepe, an impressive Urartu building. Today Patnos is a small town in an impoverished rural area.

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Populated places in Ağrı Province Districts of Ağrı Province Kurdish settlements in Turkey Important Bird Areas of Turkey {{Ağrı-geo-stub